I’m not a cold-weather person. Something about freezing my ass off to the point of being able to register my nipples as deadly weapons doesn’t sit right with me. I mean, when the temperature dips below 70, I’m digging the parka and fur boots out of ...
For more than a decade, Lt. Col. Paul Andrews’ job was to rain down destruction on battlefields. As a combat weapons officer on fearsome AC-130 gunships, Andrews would spot enemy positions with the plane’s sensors and cameras, ...
According to legend, coffee was first discovered more than a thousand years ago by a goat herder in the fertile highlands of western Ethiopia’s Kaffa region. Today, the area’s rich farmlands produce some of the best coffee in the world. Ethiopian ...
The sound of gunshots echoed through the school, bouncing off the walls like a demon roaring just around the corner. The school was an old, hollowed-out church, and with all the hard walls and vinyl tile — the same surfaces that easily echo ...
When emergency dispatchers told Minnesota’s Sleepy Eye Fire Department that a man was drowning in corn kernels, the volunteers knew they were facing a farm foe as deadly as a city’s towering inferno. “It's just pulling them down like quicksand is ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces withdrew from Snake Island on Thursday, June 30, marking a largely symbolic victory for Ukraine as fighting on the eastern front lines and Russian missile attacks countrywide continue to inflict a heavy toll on ...
A paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division died in a motorcycle crash in Miami Township, Ohio, officials from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson said in a statement released Thursday, June 30. Sgt. Seth P. Vision, 22, was an Army cavalry scout ...
A Pennsylvania man faces 25 years in prison for allegedly mailing threatening letters to US Army Gen. Mark Milley and a string of other military and political leaders. A three-count federal grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday, June 28, in ...
One of the deadliest military mishaps the special operations community has ever experienced happened 16 years ago. Steven Smith, a former flight engineer with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, recalled what he experienced during the ...
An armed Michigan meth dealer who led Lansing cops on a potentially deadly high-speed chase, including steering his car into oncoming traffic, is going to prison. On Wednesday, June 29, in Grand Rapids, US District Court Judge Janet T. Neff ...
For two decades, night vision and thermal optics were core tools of the trade for Jamey Caldwell. The retired Army sergeant major spent over 20 years as a Ranger and operator in special mission units, where missions were as likely to be carried out ...
When she was a child living in Kabul under the Taliban regime, Niloofar Rahmani would spend hours gazing up at the birds and fantasizing about one day sharing their freedom to fly. With no opportunities to receive a formal education, Rahmani never ...
Dear Jack, I’m pretty sure I just saw a stolen valor guy at the mall. Should I go back and confront him? Thanks, Petty Officer 2nd Class Seth Garcia Hello Petty Officer 2nd Class Seth! Should you confront a potential ...
Keni Thomas didn’t think twice about whether to reenlist in the days following 9/11. It had been three years since he left the Army Rangers, but Thomas felt the same call to the fight that he had when he’d first enlisted a decade earlier. He was ...
All Nichole Scaraglino wanted to do was join the Army. She took a long, winding path on her way toward military service. In her early 20s, she worked in the music industry. She was pursuing her career in Manhattan on 9/11. Later, she became a ...
A string of coups and attempted coups across the Sahel region of Africa may be opening the door to Russian influence, led by mercenary forces, in some of Africa’s most resource-rich nations. With a climate roughly comparable to that of the ...
If you’re anything like me, you like to spice up your coffee recipes every once in a while to keep things interesting. What sounds better than coffee mixed with a relatively “harmless” high-content alcohol? As we all know, nothing mixes better with ...
Working closely with officials in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, US agents this week stopped an accused firebug fugitive from fleeing to the Middle East after a blaze killed a Philadelphia firefighter. Armed with an arrest warrant, members ...
The US military is moving to base thousands of new troops in Central and Eastern Europe, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, June 29. President Joe Biden announced at the NATO Summit in Madrid that the US would move, beef up, or solidify the troop ...
One-Eyed Willy’s treasure wasn’t found, but Oregon archeologists on June 17 recovered timber they suspect might've come from the Santo Cristo de Burgos — a shipwrecked Spanish galleon that inspired the cinematic cult classic The Goonies. But ...
He’s tattooed motorcycle gang leaders, Army privates, and special operators, and even Jasen Rauch, the lead guitarist of rock band Breaking Benjamin. Before he became a tattoo industry star, Will XX was an undocumented immigrant, a Los Angeles ...
As I watched the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, I realized that my own generation of service members is not the first to experience the anguish of witnessing our military efforts fall into chaos. Vietnam veterans, upon returning ...
Five days into the Battle of Iwo Jima, Hershel “Woody” Williams was the only Marine left standing in his six-man demolition team; the others had all been killed or grievously wounded. But Williams’ unit still faced a seemingly endless maze of buried ...
The rain was relentless, drenching every Marine assigned to 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, standing in formation this afternoon. Not a single one dared complain though. There’s no room for that when you’re formed up in the shadow of a statue that pays ...
How the hell is this a topic in 2022? Myths about tampons — used for centuries to passively absorb a few milliliters of menstrual blood — continue to plague first-aid courses everywhere, proclaiming the feminine hygiene products to be field-expedient ...
Who is your favorite James Bond? It matters more to some people than is reasonable — like, it’s get-into-a-bar-fight serious for them. That may sound absurd, but there’s a very definable reason for such allegiances. While the earliest Bond movies ...
When firefighters arrived at the Longwood house on June 20, they found a Florida man pinned by a large tree limb, 15 feet up the remnants of a majestic Southern live oak, bellowing. “He was literally screaming the entire time that we were there, ...
When Chisago County Sheriff’s deputies got dispatched on June 14 to a truck stop an hour north of Minneapolis, they were told a vehicle was so full of cats that its driver couldn't see out his windows. “We literally got there and were like, ‘Oh my ...
The Ukrainian soldier warned me to speak no louder than a whisper. The enemy lines were less than 50 meters away, he told me, and my voice — if too loud — could carry across no man’s land and invite gunfire from the other side. “Only 50 meters?” I ...
On April 11, 1974, Lt. Brian Shul was shot down over enemy territory while flying an AT-28D Trojan as part of a covert mission along the Cambodian border. Unable to eject, Shul, a US Air Force pilot serving as an adviser with the CIA’s clandestine ...
